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Australian-born Dominica Matthews is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music, UK and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

Dominica has achieved great success in competitions in both the UK and Australia. Awards won include the 2005 Elizabeth Harwood Memorial Award (RNCM), the 2005 Brigitte Fassbaender Lieder Prize (RNCM), the Robin Kay Memorial Opera Prize (RNCM), the 2005 Clonter Opera Audience Prize and Runner-Up Award, the 2002 Nina Barden Memorial Scholarship, the 2001 2MBS-FM Young Performer of the Year and the 1997 Joan Sutherland Society Scholarship winner. She was also a Peter Moores Foundation Scholar 2004–2006 and an Ian Potter Foundation Grant recipient in 2003–2004.

Dominica has performed as soloist in opera, oratorio and recital with a number of orchestras and ensembles in venues throughout the UK and Australia. Some of these include the Australian Opera & Ballet Orchestra, the Goldberg Ensemble, Foden’s Brass Band, the Royal Australian Naval Band, the Australian Youth Orchestra, the SBS Youth Orchestra, the RNCM Opera Orchestra and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Orchestra.

She is currently a principal artist with Opera Australia having completed two years as a member of The Moffatt Oxenbould Young Artist Programme. Major appearances for Opera Australia have included Nicklausse in The Tales of Hoffmann (for which she won a Green Room Award), Monitress in Suor Angelica, Flora in La Traviata, Tessa in The Gondoliers and Eunice Hubble in A Streetcar Named Desire. Roles with other companies include La Zia Principessa in Suor Angelica, Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, Mother Goose and Baba the Turk in The Rake’s Progress and The First Prioress in Dialogue of the Carmelites.